Coffee Storage
By Gary Gresham, Fri Dec 9th
Proper coffee storage makes a lot of difference in how yourcoffee tastes once you go to use it. Here are a few tips forstoring coffee beans and ground coffee to keep your coffeetasting as good as possible.
For roasted whole bean coffee storage use an airtight ceramiccanister that blocks light. The ceramic canister needs a rubberseal around the lid so air cannot get inside.
Fill the ceramic canister clear to the top with whole beancoffee to keep the air inside down to a minimum. Roasted wholebean coffee will last one to two weeks, when stored this way atroom temperature.
Stay away from plastic or metal containers because they canalter the taste of your coffee. If you use a clear glasscanister, keep the light away by storing it in a dark cupboard.
The truth about ground coffee is that it will only store for afew days. But you should at least keep air away by using anairtight ceramic canister that blocks light.
This is why grinding your own beans is well worth the effortand it's also really simple. Trying to keep ground coffee freshis next to impossible.
You'll even hear some people suggest freezing whole bean orground coffee but here is why that is a bad idea. Watermolecules
